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40 times less? Who writes this crap? Forty times $120 million is $4.8 billion. $120 million less $4.8 billion is a negative $4.68 billion. 1/40th the cost maybe. But not forty times less.


13 posted on 10/02/2024 10:20:31 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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Thank you.

n times less meaning 1/n as much went from advertising claim jargon (ad claims are not subject to literal interpretation in court, that’s why they use them.) to political statements. I kind of prefer that idiots do use them because they unmistakably signal their unnumerate idiocy and intention not to be held to what they say.


14 posted on 10/02/2024 11:24:40 AM PDT by takebackaustin
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I think you misunderstood the article. The Coppola film cost $120 million. Walsh’s “Am I Racist” was made for 40 times less, which means it cost around $3 million or a little more to make.


15 posted on 10/02/2024 12:43:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: IYAS9YAS
40 times less? Who writes this crap? Forty times $120 million is $4.8 billion. $120 million less $4.8 billion is a negative $4.68 billion. 1/40th the cost maybe. But not forty times less.

According to the article, Am I a Racist cost $3 million to make. Megalopolis cost $120 million.

$3 million * 40 = $120 million.

$120 million / 40 = $3 million.

Seems like the math is okay to me.

16 posted on 10/02/2024 1:06:16 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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